Communications (Norway)
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     Railroads:
         4,223 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; Norwegian State Railways (NSB) operates
         4,219 km (2,450 km electrified and 96 km double track); 4 km other
     Highways:
         79,540 km total; 38,580 km paved; 40,960 km gravel, crushed stone, and earth
     Inland waterways:
         1,577 km along west coast; 2.4 m draft vessels maximum
     Pipelines:
         refined products 53 km
     Ports:
         Oslo, Bergen, Fredrikstad, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim
     Merchant marine:
         864 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 22,978,202 GRT/40,128,177 DWT;
         includes 12 passenger, 20 short-sea passenger, 118 cargo, 2 passenger-cargo,
         19 refrigerated cargo, 16 container, 49 roll-on/roll-off, 22 vehicle
         carrier, 1 railcar carrier, 180 oil tanker, 93 chemical tanker, 83 liquefied
         gas, 28 combination ore/oil, 211 bulk, 10 combination bulk; note - the
         government has created a captive register, the Norwegian International Ship
         Register (NIS), as a subset of the Norwegian register; ships on the NIS
         enjoy many benefits of flags of convenience and do not have to be crewed by
         Norwegians; the majority of ships (777) under the Norwegian flag are now
         registered with the NIS
     Civil air:
         76 major transport aircraft
     Airports:
         103 total, 102 usable; 64 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways
         over 3,659 m; 12 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 16 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
     Telecommunications:
         high-quality domestic and international telephone, telegraph, and telex
         services; 2 buried coaxial cable systems; 3,102,000 telephones; broadcast
         stations - 46 AM, 350 private and 143 government FM, 54 (2,100 repeaters)
         TV; 4 coaxial submarine cables; 3 communications satellite earth stations
         operating in the EUTELSAT, INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean), MARISAT, and
         domestic systems